Catherine Berry
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine Berry is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with over 11 years at Google and a software career stretching back to the mid-1980s, bringing deep systems and architecture experience from roles ranging from intern to chief architect. She combines hands-on back-end development with technical leadership, having served as VP/Principal Architect at multiple companies before joining Google. At Google she has contributed to core open-source Java libraries like Guava, improving Javadoc clarity, PSL handling, and low-level utilities—work that impacts many Java projects worldwide. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she pairs rigorous engineering with attention to detail, from defining constants in core classes to cleaning up subtle parsing issues. Her longevity across startups and large enterprises reflects a talent for shipping reliable, maintainable systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Bellarmine College PreparatoryBS, BS at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (5)
javas10
java10
guava10
javadoc9
testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
google/guava
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
Google core libraries for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Catherine contributed to the Google Guava library, a core Java library, by addressing specific issues and enhancing its functionality. Their contributions included correcting grammar and phrasing in the Javadoc, allowing terminal hyphens in domain names (though this change was later rolled back), correcting an error in a method, and defining a constant in the Ascii class. The user also worked on cleaning up Public Suffix List (PSL) handling and correcting a typo in the Javadoc of SmoothRateLimiter.
guavajavacore-libraries
bolinfest/plovr
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
plovr: a Closure build tool
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
closurebuild-toolplovr
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